The original painting, referred to as the 'Chinese Mona Lisa' due to its popularity, was completed during the Song Dynasty artist Zhang by Zeduan.

It is painted on a side scrolling and designed to look through slowly unrolling the paper from right to left , a long arm at once , like an ancient comic strip .

It is considered a great historical importance as it documents the day-to- day life of the Chinese people, both rich and poor , 900 years ago .

Some newer versions are created but with added scenes from the Ming and Qing times , according to the Chinese tradition of contemporary artists reworking ancient masterpieces .

While Chunhui version will be easier to identify for obvious reasons , it does not add any scenes from modern - day China .

The work was awarded the world record on Thursday last week as part of Guinness World Records Day , set up to commemorate the day notes in the book became the best - selling copyright book .

Other records will not work on the same day with the most hula hoops spun at once , broken in the UK , by the dance group ' Marawa 's Majorettes ' , who spun hula hoops 264 between them .

The award for the largest gathering of people dressed as penguins also went to UK after 325 people dressed .

The most eaten sword underwater went to Australia , while the USA took home the recognition of the largest collection of pizza boxes , as Scott Wiener has had 595 boxes .

Other categories included the longest basketball shot , which was won by the Harlem Globetrotters player Corey Law with a thrown 109 feet 9 inches , with the fastest 100m running on all fours , a majority of people dressed as ninjas .

The record for most darts got a hand on a bottle most minute and walk straight across is , oddly , broken at the same time and by the same person .

Chunhui 's carving was unveiled at the Palace Museum in Beijing , at the same location as the scroll on which it is based .